Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Nicaragua and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Magazine to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Gong,
Darondo,
The Velvet Underground,
The Star Department,
Jacob Miller,
Dark Day,
Eric Copeland,
Skriet,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nick Fraelich,
a-ha,
The Durutti Column,
Desert Stars,
Section 25,
Jeff Lynne,
Das Ding,
Joe Smooth,
Bobby Womack,
Chris Corsano,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Divine Comedy,
Eli Mardock,
The Mojo Men,
Duran Duran,
Flipper,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ponytail,
Los Fastidios,
Agitation Free,
Prince Buster,
Cheater Slicks,
The Doors,
Youth Brigade,
Fad Gadget,
Susan Cadogan,
EPMD,
The Saints,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pantaleimon,
B.T. Express,
Absolute Body Control,
Flamin' Groovies,
E-Dancer,
Public Enemy,
the Association,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Warren Ellis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Von Mondo,
Malaria!,
Shoche,
Lungfish,
Organ,
These Immortal Souls,
Cymande,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Goldenarms,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Al Stewart,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.